Fred Dervin & Andreas Jacobsson 
Intercultural Communication Education [PDF ebook] 
Broken Realities and Rebellious Dreams

This book explores the notion of interculturality in education and supports scholars in their discovery of the notion. Continuing the author’s previous work, the book urges (communication) education researchers and educators to ‘interculturalize’ interculturality. This book corresponds to the authors’ endeavor to complexify the way interculturality is discussed, expressed, (co-)constructed and advocated in different parts of the world and in different languages. To interculturalize interculturality is to expand the way we deal with the notion as an object of scientific and educational discourse, noting the dominating voices and allowing for silenced voices that are rarely heard around interculturality to emerge.


 


This book is based on broken realities and (the authors’) rebellious dreams. As two researchers and educators with a long experience examining discourses of interculturality, this book represents the authors’ program for the future of intercultural communication education. The book is divided into three ‘tableaus’ (living descriptions) depicting today’s ‘broken’ realities of interculturality and two ‘rebellious’ dreams of what it could be in research and education.

Table of Content

Introduction.- Tableau 1 The brushstroke of interculturality.- Tableau 2 Problematic realities: Interculturality from the past – but still with us?.- Tableau 3Are critical approaches to interculturality contributing to interculturalizing interculturality?.- Dream 1 Polycentric alternatives: Thinking and analysing fiction and actuality.-Dream 2 Verblendungen (Bedazzlement).- Conclusion: Let’s dream together!

About the author

Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland). He is Director of the TENSION research group (diversities and interculturality in education). Dervin also holds several distinguished and visiting professorships in Australia, Canada, China, Luxembourg, Malaysia and Sweden. Prof. Dervin specializes in intercultural education, the sociology of multiculturalism and student and academic mobility. He has widely published in different languages on identity, the “intercultural” and mobility/migration (over 150 articles and 60 books). His latest books include: Dervin, Sude, Yuan & Chen (2022) Interculturality East and West: Unthink, Dialogue, Rethink (Springer); Dervin & Yuan (2021) Revitalizing Interculturality, Minzu as a Companion (Routledge); Dervin & Jacobsson (2021) Teacher Education for Critical and Reflexive Interculturality (Palgrave Mac Millan); Dervin & Simpson (2021) Interculturality and the Political within Education (Routledge).


 


Andreas Jacobsson is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Jacobsson’s research is primarily focused on intercultural communication education; interculturality and teacher education; early childhood education; intercultural film; intercultural philosophy and epistemology. His latest publications (both with F. Dervin): Teacher Education for Critical and Reflexive Interculturality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and Interculturaliser l’interculturel (L’Harmattan).